I’m Angolan living in Angola, you didn’t lie when comes to the social economic problems. Actually, it got worse. However, some africans rather listen to the government propaganda then see the problem in front of us.
@Ed Ducate I don't disagree with you on that. I also know a lot of foreigners, friends, and family who made a lot of money in Angola. As a someone who is more interesting in business than politic, I'm more of the mindset of "I will succeed with or without a functional government, whether in Angola or aboard", cause I kinda have the privilege to think like that... However, I care about my country and my people, and I don't like how the government is handling the economy. Everyday I see people struggling for basic stuff, I see children and families eating on the garbage, misery everywhere. It breaks my soul... We were not rich, but now we are poor and live in misery. When come to confrontation, it is inevitable. It is a time bomb. Most young people don't like the government, not only that... They are more educated than the previous generation, and they have nothing to lose, cause most are poor and unemployed.
Okay, I see your point but where’s is the other half of the city? I hate when strangers come to a country and only show or talk about poverty . What about the good and beautiful side of Luanda, what about its development ??? What you’re basically saying in this video is telling people that they’ll be surrounded by poverty and sicknesses 🙄🙄🙄🙄
There’s poverty everywhere even in USA where she is from. When she will go back to USA she can also show us how people live in theirs ghettos. They always like showing the bad side of Africa.
We've been looking for ways to end poverty and I believe we're moving slow but at least in the right direction, this comes from someone who's been leaving here for 19y and understands that we are still a very young country with only 46 years of Independence.
Great channel, lots of content. Just wanted to add as an Angolan myself, most of the food you mention is not angolan food. The food they serve in 5 stars restaurants and hotels are not traditional angolan food. I respect you saying that i didnt like our food, but actually it's not our food your referring to. Traditional plates like, Funge, kizaka, fumbua, mengueleka, rama de bata, kiabo, katatu. Were not i. THe highlight of your video in terms of real angolan food. But still a good videos. 👍🏾
Sorry... Since the food in Angola isn't that great? I found this comments highly disturbing and full of bias... you should probably sound best if you would say - I don't think... but blunt stating that the food isn't great is just ridiculous... So people in Angola (and please stop saying Luanda, Angola all the time), Angolans, don't think food is that great? You're completely ignoring people's tastes and perspectives example, I am Angolan currently in Houston and while I praise the fact that there is a variety of cuisines, it doesn't mean I found the food great for my liking I don't like Chinese food, doesn't mean is not great, I get the beans, rice and chicken/stake in Mexican restaurants - I like because it brings me "home", but I don't think the way they cook is necessarily the best, whereas an Houstonian may find it just fine... so I think you would be helping people better by either - stating facts, or putting things in your opinion instead of blunt statements like that one... you lost me right there!
Hi, I apologize if I offended you. I'm only trying to give my personal experience and perspective of living in Angola. I did enjoy many many meals in Angola (almost all of them). But I have to stick with my truth and that is after traveling to over 35 countries and living in 3, the food was not my favorite. But I completely respect your opinion on the video.
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew Why did you not state that in the video? instead of passively aggressively trying to bring the country down with you condescending comments.
I am going to start a RU-vid chanel and I will go to homeless shelters in every major US Cities and film the poverty that you only say exist in Angola and show the entire world the lie you tell them.
I did not say poverty only exists in Angola. Poverty exists in every country. Again, the purpose of this channel is to share my experiences living abroad to help others when they're making the decision to move overseas or not. While I felt the poverty in Angola was sad, there were so many amazing things about the country that I also discuss in this video and others :)
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew did you truly experience Angola or did you create your opinions off of what you saw. Did you talk to the people in poverty and understand them?
Stop Bs ! poverty is everywhere . Here in Los Angeles the poverty rate is so unbearable , there are homeless and beggars every where in the so called " Advance country". Concerning the food, I don't like American food , that doesn't mean the food is not good . the American love their food , and I respect that. Don't go to a country and said the food is not good, that's very disrespectfu.l
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew i understand that you didn't like the food, but to say tha the Angolan food is not good was wrong! Angola has more food than the ones you showed here on your video!!
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew But That's exactly the issue here, you are not helping people consider making the expat move. You need to be objective for that, but you're clearly biased. It would be like me saying People should really consider before moving to Mexico because you have cartels, and they're all over , they've corrupted the entire political system, it's all in your face, plus poverty is everywhere. Would it be a fair depiction of Mexico and what the country is? I doubt that. same with the US, would it be fair for the US if I was to say it's just a country filled with racist white people, gangs everywhere in LA, police who act like cowboys and kill any black they arrest. Poverty is so bad that people rely on foodstamps
@@91Neyyd Angola has been in this situation for more than 500 years. This is the place where majority of captured and enslaved we're children and nothing has changed. The country is governed by Lusoafricans or Portuguese cultured blacks who don't care about the rest of Angola populations. Nor much has changed since slavery.
Thank you for the video. I just want to point out a "trend" I find interesting. When talking about housing in Africa or the Middle East or Asia, non-Africans/Middle Eastern people or Asians tend to call what is clearly a Gated Communities elsewhere, Expat Compounds... not sure why... but from first hand experience those are pretty much the same thing. We have many of those Gated Communities spread across the Americas. They also can be found in parts of Europe, New Zealand and Asia.
Yes, I agree they are basically the same thing - a gated community and an expat compound. The key difference is an expat compound is typically expats only. Versus a gated community will house anyone. In Angola, we lived in a gated community and there were several Angolans that lived with us :)
Some expat compounds abroad are restricted to only expats. They also may have small grocery/convenience store, cafe, preschool or daycare, and a variety of community activities and amenities as well as private transportation for everyone living on the compound. US gated communities are usually just houses.
I definitely got offended by your food comments, but I don't blame you. I can understand how growing up on fake meat and radioactive potatoes in the US can render your taste buds in a near-dead state, so you don't recognize fresh produce and fish. I don't hate on expats, but I don't like how the expat situation is very one-sided. You can come here, but we can't go over there, and if we are lucky enough to be an expat in one of your countries, we don't have the same perks as you. Like I said, very one-sided, but kudos to you for being on the lucky side. I'm glad you enjoyed your time in our not-so-well-built buildings, how brave of you...
Great video! Don’t listen to all the butt hurt privileged Angolans who can’t acknowledge the real situation of their country. As an Argentinian, you did a great job with your videos on argentina, they were accurate and very informative on the day to day life, it’s clear that you not only lived here, but you did your research, so i trust you did the same for Angola.
Sorry…. But Portuguese restaurants in the US do very well. Your food tastes are at best VERY questionable. With that said so are the rest of your perceptions of Luanda
Hi Melissa I was born in Angola 🇦🇴 and I move to the United States since 1990 and I never went back to my country, tell me about your life experience, and thanks for sharing
Am not Angolan but why can't you talk about your big American murder and poverty in Los Angeles.Am not an Angolan but I'd rather be in Angola than die with guns in America and all murders and your food is full of GMO making them having mental illness. In fact I heard most African countries doesn't have GMO and you only talk about bad side.
I really try to talk about both sides of living in Luanda. I did not talk about USA facts because this video is about Luanda. If you are planning to move or visit there, I hope you found this and other videos helpful.
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew I got 2 master degree (petroleum engineering and MBA ) in europe .After graduation , I did 3 year in angola without job in my major (applied everywhere in oil compagnies)...but the oil compagnies in angola are taking foreigners from europe and usa when angolan who studies in better universities cannot get job in their own country but after those foreigner make video to said :angolans are poor....
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew most people found it offensive and borderline racist. It reeks of white superiority and is disgusting. You should consider changing your content.
@Palma Entertainment black or white we don't care because there are white Africans. So are you hurt with these comments? How do you feel talking your kaak
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew why you guys always lied when it comes to Africa. There are lot of nice places that you could show and very nice people that you or your husband work with o guess. But all you can talk about is poverty and the negativity.
We, Argentinians, used to criticizing strongly our homeland. When I see other brothers from latam or Africa, I realize how subjective "good and bad" is. I like the video :)
White content creators like demeaning africa. Watch content from black creators to understand the true picture. White content creators only talk about poverty in africa, you wonder why they never talk about homelessness back in the USA
@@janeulo4388 you are right, her perspective will always be biased, as everybody's. Though, the lack of information in many countries in Africa, the lack of stability and other stuff make me doubt. However, I'd love to know more, I like dif. Perspectives. If you have time, there is an account called PPPeter, he travelled a lot throughout Africa and showed, to my eyes, terrible situations, you can enlighten me about that, I'd love your answer
Angolan food it's extremely delicious and just to make people aware that the way she explained how the food is made it's not really true, if you need to know more about our food please feel free to talk to me! There's a lot of poverty in Angola 🇦🇴 , everything is really expensive but what about the rest? It's always good to Google it to do a deep research about the country! America is no longer a safe country, the food it's terrible, etc. Everywhere you can find difficulties even in America there's a lot of poverty, I'm lucky enough to live in UK but Angola it's always the first destination for holidays, there's beautiful places to visit and the food once again it's delicious, the influence of Portuguese culinary it's what makes the food even better. 🙏🏾😇
@@vivalda9632she’s not latin american. She is American, from the USA. She lived in Argentina as an expat (for work reasons) just like she did in Angola. And as an Argentinian, let me tell you Argentina is nothing, absolutely nothing like Angola. Poor people in Argentina are nowhere near as poor as Angolans. And the middle and upper class in Argentina is much much larger. We are a much older country, with established institutions, quality public education, free healthcare, a national industry and a service based economy. Argentina is a really safe country, specially if you compare it to Africa, and it even has a lower homicide rate than the USA. Violence simply does not exist. There’s only pickpocketing and theft like in Europe or any other country.
Oil companies keep kicking us of our land that’s why the slums are so full, Exxon bought my grandmothers land for 120 hectors for 1,000 euros EXACTLY.. she refused but government approved it anyway through process that Exxon lobbied for. I hope one day the wealth spreads
I haven't been yet but had a Portuguese-Angolan 💥💥 girlfriend for a bit... I hope you have a chapter about how beautiful their women are and how beautiful the beaches are and this city called Benguela where I plan to go BEFORE visiting Luanda.
The video is informative. You express your thoughts and give detailed arguments. Although, I would have enjoyed the video even more if you would have shared some "price tags" info (ex: car rental; rent, ...).
Hey Melissa, I´m Franco, currently in Argentina (Buenos Aires) and soon travelling for a few months to Angola. I´ll be mainly based in Luanda but will travel to the interior of Angola (Malanje, Quando Cubando, and so on). I watched your videos and they were really great and informative about what to expect. I wanted to ask you about health recommendations for Angola. I already have the yellow fever vaccine, but i was wondering what other recommendations could you give (health related) to an expat going to Angola. Anything related to Malaria fever? I´ve heard abour taking Doxycycline every day as a precaution. Is that something recommended? Is there anything else to do before or during my stay in Angola? Thank you very much!
Your video is quite informative. However, what you and a lot of people ignore or refuse to see is that, the food of Angola was not only influenced by Protugal it shaped portuguese cuisine. Just like American food is essentially food as cooked by the African diaspora, as they were the chefs of that world.
America is full of un healthy food. It's very hard to find healthy food in the US. Am African. Never been to Angola but lived in the US for quite some time. Your food is all Gmo. Just Googled Angola food and it looks more healthy and tasty than the burgers and pizza you were showing.
The grocery stores have fresh foods just have to cook it yourself or buy a house and grow your own. We have many vegan resteruant now more healthy everything. Be bless l want all peoples to eat fresh healthy food 😋
Hi, the video is really informative. Please answer few questions 1) How much $ is required to live a upper middle class life in Luanda, if company gives logistics and stay. 2) House maid service is available in Luanda. 3) How is the climate of Luanda round the year. 4) How is the medical facilities available in Luanda. 5) Company gives you the local living allowance in Local currency or in USD Waiting for your quick response
Manpower is very cheap & in abundance. It depends on your expenditure how standard your life style is. Medical facility not that good also very costly here in luanda. Local currency is Kwanza. Alcohol is very cheap. Rest all costly.
Your video is very disrespectful and screams western supremacy. Your pretending as if poverty doesn't exists in the States haven't you seen your crumbling infrastructure, your lack of public healthcare, homelessness (soon you will have even more homeless people because of the end of the Eviction Moratorium). You are in no possition to critizise Angola, you went there with your american exceptionalism and your feelings of Superiority. "We are tired about white people coming to Africa just to look down on us poor Africans" shame on you. Stop wasting your breath where it does not concern you and start focusing your attention on your "glorious country". Thank you
Melissa. There is poverty everywhere. There is an ENORMOUS amount of violence in the United States. There are people who make over 100k US dollars and are homeless. There are people who do not feel safe there. Not even children from other children. It's heartbreaking. There are places in the US that has trash in the streets and it stinks so bad. There is so much poverty in lots of places, but people are considerate enough to show the good parts of the country that they appreciate instead of showing videos that look like unicef propaganda. That is not to negate the fact that there is poverty in Angola like all places around the world. The company that built your development, was it an Angolan company or foreign? There are plenty of people in Angola who live in houses built by Angolans and do not experience the issues mentioned in your video. The food you described is not traditional Angolan food. Btw...Portuguese and Brazilian foods are delicious. There are places there that are not surrounded by the poverty shown in your video. Living there for 4 years or less while working in a company that provides you with the basics does not make you an expert or informed enough to make such videos to illustrate things there. Try using words such, "my experience in ...". I do agree that life there is generally hard.
Ahhh Funge. The consistency of wallpaper paste and smell of old socks, and tastes worse than either. Is it still $10 for a beer down at the Punto Final?
Waw! You worked in Angola? Have you asked yourself how many Angolan citizens have been allowed to work in the US? Did you know Angolan students in the US are not allowed to work ? however Angolan students in American universities have to pay 3X higher tuitions than American students do. One of the reasons Angolans are poor it is because they don't charge people like yourself extra money like you charge them in your country. I am sure your kids paid the same tuition rate as Angolan kids in Angolan schools. It is even possible that your kids got free education in Angola. I am sure you would never show homeless Americans sleeping on the bridges on the winter snow all over American cities. You should have made a video talking about gun violence in Chicago and racism in America justice system.
Everyone has the same rules unless you are from the US, so stfu with your bullshit, and I know Angola very well, corruption and lazyness are a big issue and the influence of European politics and Chinese but keep ignoring it and finding excuses to blame everything on others.
Hi Melissa, thanks dear friend for your attention about traveling experience. I'm shaju from Bangladesh, I'm a readymade garment business men. I'm interested to travel to Angola,and you can tell me about how can business develop there.
I’d like to see Angola , interesting that American fast food have set up shop in Angola.Did you see Starbucks.. Poor Chinese building . Put up very cheaply.
A belated welcome back home. Those houses with cracks in the walls and other issues sounds like Chinese construction. You will get that when residing in China.
That’s because Chinese built the majority of expat housing there for CHEAP, only made to last as long as the oil companies can profit ( source: lived there from 2008 to 2013)
Jules, I'm sorry the video came across that way to you. I love Angola and Argentina. My purpose with this channel is to help others considering moving abroad. Thanks for the view.
@@LifebyMelissaAndrew you are not helping others. you are just helping yourself to get views on your stupid channel. What a waist of time to watch your channel.
Luanda is one of the most beautiful cities in Africa, and look what she starts with....the slums. Then she goes on to criticize the local food...forgetting the artificial, toxic GMO mess she left in the US...when will it stop!!!!
she talks about poverty, and yet was treated like a queen by the people. Looks like she takes advantage of the situation, and claims it was difficult for her because she had to see poor people.
Also instead of you guys getting upset at the video uploader for just reporting her experience, instead you guys should be furious at the corrupt Angolan government who is the cause for all of this from the wealth gap, poverty and lack of good infrastructure(and the good ones only for the affluent), prices, etc that's been going on since the Dos Santos government. And lets not forget a mixed Portuguese elite class... And bringing up poverty in the USA(who the average person in poverty is living better than the average person in Angola) is not going to solve this issue. The POVERTY rate for USA is $14,000 a YEAR. The poverty rate for Angola us $1.90 DAILY! And according to the World Bank 32.8% of the population is poor vs 11.5% for the USA. Also where are the SOCIAL programs for the poor in Angola? Where is Angola's homeless shelters? Or even food stamps? You guys are just upset that she shattered the DELUSIONS of Angola being this rich country in Africa. All I see is kneejerk reactions.
I must call out, to you is you put Brazil before angola. And completely ignored the fact that slavery happened. The reason why the cuisine is similar is because of the tribes that were taking in the transatlantic slave trade, those people groups brought their recipes and cooking techniques with them. Among the major countries during the transatlantic slave trade was Angola, Gabon, Nigeri,a Congo and Ghana... Which is why the food systems tend to overlap especially if you compare to Brazilian, Caribbean and even African-American food styles and flavor profiles. I think it's an important piece that you should certainly add because it removes the colonial ignorance from your rhetoric.
You were here for over 3 years and saw and learnt nothing. Its not a EXPAT COMPOND its a condominium, estates (gated community) you have them everywhere word choices are horrible.
Honestly, she learnt nothing. No wonder she is not able to ask the questions other people are asking her related to other things they want to know about Angola.
Dejele Angola trankila, Melissa. No hay mariamismo negativo en Angola x favor. Kedele en Argentina y Tejas. Se arruinaba los estados unidos con hiperfeminismo entiende?
Each country has its problems. But I think Angola is a beautiful country that can offer a lot of positive and growing experiences for expats and visitors.
Hi dear, I like your channels and I'am from 🇦🇴🇦🇴. So luanda is the good and beautyfull playse, but he must be develop more and more in the most ove àreas of the society. Okey thanks very much
Aye Melissa & Andrew, I hope you don't think that Angolan women are "oppressed" and need to become vegans and woke. Since you like expatriating here, would you be so kind in keeping your misandrist, radical femehmist thoughts to yourself? The women are doing fine in Angola. They don't need to become "strong" and "induhpendent" (I know how to spell, but you are ingenious to decode?). I thank you in advance. Regards, Anti-feminist Voice for Such Expats.
Why is that the picture you chose for your head picture? I’d you lived in LA would you post pictures of the homeless and all The trash on the street? Smh y’all are truly vile.
